For firms with heavy, recurring analysis needs, DEPLAW can be connected to Microsoft Power BI. This takes you beyond the built-in Excel report: you analyze your case data in your own interactive dashboards that update automatically.

What is Power BI?

Power BI is Microsoft’s business intelligence tool. It connects to a data source and presents the data in interactive reports and dashboards – with charts, filters, KPIs, and drill-down. Unlike a one-off Excel export, Power BI reports are living: you define once what a report should look like, and from then on it continuously shows the current state. Typical uses in a law firm:

Firm cockpitCase numbers, revenue, turnaround times, and workload in one continuously updated dashboard.
Client & practice-area analysisAnalysis across any time period, practice area, case handler, or case origin – interactively filterable.
Controlling & forecastingTrends, target-vs-actual comparisons, and forecasts from historical case data.
Your own KPIsMetrics tailored exactly to your firm – freely modeled rather than fixed and predefined.

Prerequisite: a dedicated data lake

Power BI needs a data source it can read from. For this, DEPLAW sets up a dedicated data lake for your firm – a separate data store into which your case data is provided in structured form, and to which Power BI connects as a data source.

The path to Power BI analytics

  1. Clarify your needs

    Consider which analyses you regularly need and whether the Excel report already covers them. Power BI pays off especially for ongoing, interactive dashboards.

  2. Contact DEPLAW support

    Support sets up the dedicated data lake for your firm and agrees on which data gets provided.

  3. Connect Power BI

    In Power BI, you connect to the data lake as a data source and build your reports and dashboards.